Peters



(No Model.)

A. W..GASH.

PAP-ER BAG AND TWINE HOLDER.

NQ. 279,333. Patented June 12,1883.

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ARTHUR W. CASH, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ADAMHuIlVIBODEN, OF SAME PLACE.

PAPER-BAG AND TWINE HoLoeR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,333, dated June 12,1883.

Application filed February 20, 1883. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, ARTHUR IV. CASH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in PaperBag and Twine Holders, of

i which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to appliances for holding paper bags in aconvenient manner to be seen and selected by a grocer or other dealerusing them, and for holding twine to be used in tying the same; and itconsists in a device having several compartments, each adapted to hold aquantity of bags hung by their up per ends, tags displayed at eachcompartment to show the size of the bags there hung by their number, anda twine-receptacle, all constructed and combined as hereinafterdescribed and claimed, reference being had to the accent panyingdrawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a planview, of my combined bag and twine holder in a circular form. Fig. 3 isa side elevation of the same invention, the bag-holder being a straightline.

The bags are held by pointed wire pins A, pushed through them near theirtop or mouth ends. These pins are horizontal to allow the bags to hangon them in bunches of one hundred each, as that is the way in which bagsare put up at the factory. The points on the pins allow them to bepushed through the them uniformly. Near their middle thewires formingpins A are bent to a vertical position,

bags a few at a time; or the awl m, which is detachable from thebag-holder, may be driven through the whole bunch at once to form ahole, into which pin A may be inserted to save time in arranging thebags and to hang forming posts 1), whose top ends are secured in themain wire B of the frame. The posts I) are long enough to allow spacebetween pins A and the wire B for that part of the bags above the holes.Each pin is longer than the space between the posts, and at the angle ofthe pinand post the wire forming them is bent upward in a short curve,forming a hook, a, in which the point of the next pin rests to helpsupport its lead and to keep the bags from slipping off from it. Thenormal posi- In Figs. 1 and 2- wire B forms a complete circle, and thepins A are repeated until they also complete a circle. In Fig. 3 wire 13is a straight line, and the pins A, while in use, form a line.

G represents an upper wire of the frame, connected with the wire B byposts 0, and D D are hooks thereon, situated,respectively, over the pinsA tohold tags (I, having numbers on them to show at a glance the size ofthe bags below them.

E represents three wires or cords, provided with a hook at their upperends and secured at their lower ends to the bag-holder, as a means ofsuspending the same at some convenient point near where the bagsare mostused. This much of the description pertains to the bagholder. Thetwineholder combined with it consists of a simple wire basket, G,adapted to receive a ball of twine, the end of which will hang out atany side between the staves of the basket, so that when the twine isdrawn out it has no tendency to lift the ball out at the top of thebasket. The basket is secured to the bag-holder as a part thereof by thebracing-wires g, which may be extensions of the posts 0. The benefit ofthis combination consists in having the twine and bags near together,the one being used with the other.

As bags of the same width are frequently made of different lengths, thenecessity of the tags (1 to indicate the size of the bags is apparent.After bags are placed on the pins, and the proper tag to indicate eachsize is hung over that size, and a ball of twine has been placed in thereceptacle G, nothing further is required to operate the device than topull down the bag required, allowing the pin to tear out of it and pull.the amount of twine required from the ball.

V hat I claim as my invention, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the main wire 13, of the series of wiresforming the posts 1), se-

cured to said wire 13, bent to form the hooks I 3. The combination, withthe bag-holding IO (1, and pointed to form the pins A, as shown deviceabove described, of the twine-basket and described. G, securedthereto,'as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the main wire B,

\ and the pins, posts, and hooks above del ARTHUR XV. CASH.

scribed, of the upper wire, 0, the posts a, connecting the same to thewire B, the hooks D, Vitnesses:

and the tags d, hung thereon and numbered to C. O. MORRTSON, indicatethe size of the bags below, as set forth. JOHN LYTLE.

